Art:spiration Blog

I've been reading Dr. David Frawley's book "Vedanta Meditation" and the concepts and techniques are really resonating with me. The primary philosophy is that through meditation we can transcend the personal self (the ego) and reach beyond to the Universal Self - the all encompassing, all pervading consciousness of the Universe, of all reality. I've been inspired to focus my meditation practice on journeying to the root of "Who Am I", the place before the ego, or as the Zen koan says "my face before my mother and father were born". Clearly I am not this body (it constantly changes, in fact all of the cells in the human body completely replaced approximately in 7 years), and I'm not my emotions with their never ending fluctuations. By realizing the root consciousness one reaches the Universal Self, the Universal reality of Oneness with all that ever was, all that is, and all that will ever be. My journey has inspired me to create a series of paintings representing my personal understanding and experience of meditation and the Universal Self, stay tuned for more...